Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F)

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) (JUI(F)) is an Islamist political party in Pakistan, founded in 1947 as Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam. The party had the support of the strongly conservative countryside of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, and the party opposed Ayub Khan's modernization policies. In 1988, the modern JUI(F) split from the JUI due to dissent over the government's support of the Mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan War, and it took the "F" from Fazl-ur-Rehman, the faction's leader. By 2013, it was the fifth-largest party in Pakistan, and it was entirely based in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and northern Balochistan.